Deweese v. Woodmen of the World

The opinion of the court was delivered by

West, J.:

This action was brought on a policy of insurance. The plaintiff recovered and the defendant appeals. The only question is whether or not the evidence so plainly showed suicide as to require an instructed verdict for the defendant.

/ The deceased was under thirty, a healthy, cheerful man, and about completing a bungalow for his family, when the end came. He was found about nine o’clock in the forenoon in this bungalow hanging by window cord suspended from a rafter, his feet about eighteen to twenty-four inches from the floor. Life was extinct…